Wangari Maathai Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Empowering, Helping

• Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

  Wangari Maathai

  Climate Change, Knocked Down, Persons

• We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change requires that we ask no less of our leaders, or ourselves.

  Wangari Maathai

  Responsibility, Rights, Leader

• The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Appreciate, Environmental

• Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.

  Wangari Maathai

  Issues, Climate, Climate Change

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• The issue of climate change, it really does bring home the fact that we are on one planet, and that some of the impact of what human beings do in one corner of the world is going to affect people in a distant corner of the world. So we may still feel very far from each other, but we are really very close to each other because of the changes we have made with travel and technology and especially the information technology.

  Wangari Maathai

  Home, Technology, Impact

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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